Shirley Fung

Shirley Fung brings more than 15 years of experience to her role as one of the founders of Akona IP. Shirley dedicates her practice to patent preparation and prosecution, and strategic counseling.

Leveraging her in-house experience to implement bespoke solutions to address specific needs of each client, Shirley excels at defining and maintaining patent strategies, resolving bottlenecks in the invention pipeline, and managing the growth and pruning of patent portfolios.

Shirley’s greatest enthusiasm lies in learning about the latest technological advancements and groundbreaking innovations. Shirley, who has experience in private practice and in-house, has prepared, prosecuted, and managed patent applications in the areas of industrial automation, autonomous systems, neural networks, machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, virtual, augmented, and mixed reality systems, data science and visualization, biomedical devices, digital health, biosensors, medical imaging systems, analog, digital, and mixed-signal circuits, signals processing, 5G and beyond wireless communications, radio frequency (RF) transceivers, cloud computing infrastructure and operations, cryptography, computer graphics and media, industrial and product designs, computer architecture and processor design, internet of things, smart home technologies, and threat and anomaly detection.